'Protecting Our Investments': Algeria Deploys Troops To Guard Niger Oil Fields | Firstpost Africa

Watch as Firstpost examines a landmark military shift in North Africa, as Algeria authorises its first foreign troop deployment in more than 50 years. Algerian lawmakers have voted to send national army units into northern Niger to protect state energy giant Sonatrach’s vital oil assets and secure the proposed Trans-Saharan gas pipeline route. Following years of strain after Niger’s 2023 coup, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and junta leader Abdourahamane Tchiani have forged a strategic defence…